Friend me if you don't lie about your exercise cals
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I use my Garmin heart rate monitor, I feel its the most accurate way of keeping track of my heart rate while working out and it gives a good estimate on how many calories I burned. For its about the fat burn not the calorie burn.0
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Wow.
I can burn 350+ calories walking at that rate on the treadmill with the incline cranked up. I am 177 pounds and do this regularly for 45 mins. I wear a hr monitor with chest strap, it is steady state cardio, and I average a hr of 150-155 bpm.
Some of us get calorie burns like that without lying. It has nothing to do with your running, and it isn't overestimated. I couldn't find the walk that had "insanely uphill constantly" so I choose the 3.5 mph. It might really tweak you to know I can go even slower (2-3 mph range) and burn that. All depends on the incline level I choose. Then again, I "claim" 1 calorie so I don't have to math out my totals with meals throughout the day.
However, if you want to do a "leisurely" run with similar burns, I suggest a 4.5 mph crawl uphill. Maybe up a mountain trail or set the treadmill as high as it will go. Now you don't have to run so fast
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This is exactly the reason why I wear my polar watch when working out, or my garmin when I'm doing an outdoor run. Whilst I'd like to believe that I burn loads of calories I know that I don't.
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I just type in the number of minutes I'm doing what and mfp determines the calories. Also people who weigh more burn more calories.0
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If the incline is high enough, then that person may be burning about 100 calories per mile. For example I walk 3 mph at 10% incline, I cut my calorie counter reading in half. That amount still averages out to about 100 calories per mile.
I don't have an HRM and I only walk, so I always cut the treadmill reading in half. But, I think some people just may not know how exaggerated the calorie burns are that machines and MFP give.
Honestly, your post reminds me of why I stopped sharing my workouts on my feed. I did a lot of cardio in the past and had a feeling that my friend list at that time was questioning my calorie burns.0 -
WOW!0
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I'm trying to be in maintenance. I assumed that mfp was overestimating with exercise calories, so I didn't eat them all back AND I am still losing. Therefore, either the exercise calories are correct or the base number is too low or even both are too low. It's all a huge estimate anyway. Still trying to figure out my tdee, but it seems like mfp underestimates it with the little data I have so far.
So, no idea what you mean by giving too much credit. I don't determine what to enter. mfp does.0 -
Darn, and I was totally planning on friending you until you posted this.0
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it's kinda rude to passive aggressively diss the people on your friends list like this o.p.0
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I don't eat back exercise cals, so I log it as whatever MFP logs it as and leave it like that so I can see what I've been doing historically. Didn't realise I'd get called a liar for it, LOL.0
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PikaKnight wrote: »
LOL, whenever I see a post that is asking for friends who needs new friends because they're sick of "insert apparently offensive/annoying thing here" I check to see if the OP is a friend, because it seems kind of rude.0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »PikaKnight wrote: »
LOL, whenever I see a post that is asking for friends who needs new friends because they're sick of "insert apparently offensive/annoying thing here" I check to see if the OP is a friend, because it seems kind of rude.
*nods* I don't know about anyone else, but that's not really someone I'd see as a good friend, either as a virtual MFP buddy or a RL one.0 -
I know I burn more lifting than any warm up cardio I do. But it's just the facts, MFP isn't 100% accurate but it keeps people motivated in a sense0
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My fitbit always low balls my calorie count. At the end of the day all I really care about is how I look and how much I can lift! This site does keep me honest (or at least embarrassed) about my eating habits though
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PikaKnight wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »PikaKnight wrote: »
LOL, whenever I see a post that is asking for friends who needs new friends because they're sick of "insert apparently offensive/annoying thing here" I check to see if the OP is a friend, because it seems kind of rude.
*nods* I don't know about anyone else, but that's not really someone I'd see as a good friend, either as a virtual MFP buddy or a RL one.
Well crumbs, I was just about to go post something snarky about all my friends.
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please answer us back here because I am wondering, at this point, if you understand what is written ; doing the exact same workout I do, a person who is 8 inches taller and weighs twice my weight ( 2x 120 = 240 pounds) will have a very different calorie burn than I am getting.
also, many of us Do Not eat back the exercise calories, in addition remember that not everyone is overweight on MFP, some of us enjoy being accountable , even though we have never had even one overweight day.0 -
I didn't know how bad the over estimations were in MFP until I started using my work phone that has a step counter. I have yet to use it while cleaning on the weekends which is where I get the majority of my exercise right now. I'm still trying to find a doctor for my medical issues so exercise is very sporadic for me. I need to do it though.... I'm HUNGRY lol0
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it's kinda rude to passive aggressively diss the people on your friends list like this o.p.
It's not my friends on here...it's when I read about someone complaining on a message board thread that they're not losing--and then I look at their exercise log and see they're overestimating. My MFP friends are all awesome.
Anywayzzz I'm kinda done w/ this thread now. It probably wasn't very nice of me to assume, and the replies from you all were not very nice either. Have a great day!0 -
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MY JOURNEY, MY CALORIES, MY BURN.
MY numbers shouldnt bother you because MY NUMBERS dont effect you.
Besides most ppl just log in the workouts in and MFP displays the number of burnt calories. Your rant should be about how MFP overestimates not about how ppl are lying.0 -
TheVirgoddess wrote: »People generally aren't intentionally lying - they are using MFP's (inaccurate) database, without knowing any better.
And burns depend on a lot of factors. I'd burn more running a mile than you, because I weigh more.
All calorie burning is estimation.
Yes, this! I don't purposely over-inflate my calories burned. I use the MFP data base and it plugs in my calories. I know that MFP overestimates calories used, so I try to only eat back about half of the calories it gives me.
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My Fitbit movement gives me calories, but I set my calories low on MFP to begin with. I have a total I aim for with or without the exercise. I adjust these numbers occasionally depending on how things are going. It's really just a place to log food and my fitbit reminds me to get up and move more often.0
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i've always suspected the calories expended on here as being overestimated; however - for my hour run at the weekend, both my garmin and strava stated a higher caloric burn than MFP
conversely, i find that MFP comes up with a lower BMR for me than other sources, so it's kind of a swings and roundabouts scenario.
regardless of its accuracy, i've consistently lost/maintained using MFP as my main tracking tool, so something must be working.0 -
Everyone calm down, she put a smiley face at the end so it's all OK.0
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OP, no offense, but when reading black-n-white posts, yours especially sounds angry.... ....I'm not looking to add to my FL, but this just observation.
Oh, and I use a calibrated trusty HRM with a trusty chest strap, so my cals burned on the hours I spend are pretty accurate. Don't take that away from me.0 -
I use the Pacer app for day exercise as I always have my phone on me & got for long walks to/from train station and at lunch. So I pretty much trust this calorie burn.
As for calories burned on the treadmill, I go by what the machine at the gym tells me and change what MFP automatically puts in. Majority of the time I don't eat back exercise cals so I use the number on the treadmill which tells me distance walked, time, my weight is inputted and it tells me the calorie burn. I usually fast walk on an incline and burn about 100 calories every 10 minutes of walking.
I don't however trust the Zumba entry on MFP...but don't bother to change the figure0 -
It does not bother me the slightest whether people are over or underestimating their calorie burn. I cheer them for doing something instead of nothing. If they overestimate they will have trouble losing weight and that is not my problem. Being active is superb and for that everyone who posts sports activities should in my humble opinion be cheered.
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